A very bad day
.... No easy way to say it. I lost Bonka-bunny Thursday evening. "Lost" is a euphemism. Ziggy went into the cat room while I was taking the trash to the dumpsters and... she was alive when I came back in, but not for long.
Spent the last two days kicking myself for being complacent, careless, and an idiot. Zig had treated the bunnies like furniture for many months. But she had been getting very agitated over the rabbit in the front yard (I have a resident lawn mower these days) and the gophers and birds and all the things she's only recently discovered since spring came to the country side where we now reside.
It's been a tough couple of days. For me and also for Ziggy. Even though it isn't her fault, it's hard not to be upset. And where I was "working on" her prey drive issues before, she's getting a crash course now in no prey, no excitement. Even though I don't have any rabbits left, I do have the cats and God Forbid she should redirect her frustration at the critters outside to them.
She was such a funny little being, Bonka. She'd get up on the shelf in her pen and put her paws on the fence to greet me when I came in to give her her "bunny ball" of kibble in a plastic ball That was her favorite thing every day. Well, besides her breakfast veggies. And her hay. Bonka liked food. But at dinner time we'd always go nose to nose and say hello. I just miss her funny nose and her whiskery hello so much right now.
Spent the last two days kicking myself for being complacent, careless, and an idiot. Zig had treated the bunnies like furniture for many months. But she had been getting very agitated over the rabbit in the front yard (I have a resident lawn mower these days) and the gophers and birds and all the things she's only recently discovered since spring came to the country side where we now reside.
It's been a tough couple of days. For me and also for Ziggy. Even though it isn't her fault, it's hard not to be upset. And where I was "working on" her prey drive issues before, she's getting a crash course now in no prey, no excitement. Even though I don't have any rabbits left, I do have the cats and God Forbid she should redirect her frustration at the critters outside to them.
She was such a funny little being, Bonka. She'd get up on the shelf in her pen and put her paws on the fence to greet me when I came in to give her her "bunny ball" of kibble in a plastic ball That was her favorite thing every day. Well, besides her breakfast veggies. And her hay. Bonka liked food. But at dinner time we'd always go nose to nose and say hello. I just miss her funny nose and her whiskery hello so much right now.
